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 Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Familyrelatives Adds British Landowner Records
Posted by Diane
British database site Familyrelatives.com added Britain’s Victorian “Doomsday Book” showing who owned land in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland more than 100 years ago.
The book, published in 1873, includes landowner returns that provide the name and address of every owner, the amount of land held, and the yearly rental valuation of holdings that are larger than an acre.
More than 320,000 landowners owned an acre or more, representing 1 percent of the population of the United Kingdom at the time. Nearly 850,000 owned less than an acre. London was excluded from the returns.
To search, click the Search tab on Familyrelatives' home page, then scroll down to the Land Records heading and choose a country.
The Doomsday records are available only with a Familyrelatives.com subscription (about $50 a year); not as a pay-per-view option.
Genealogy Web Sites | Land records | UK and Irish roots
Tuesday, June 09, 2009 2:46:27 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00) 
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Thursday, June 04, 2009
Newest General Land Office Records: Master Title Plats
Posted by Diane
Land-records researchers might be interested to know that most of the Master Title Plats for Colorado, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota will be available free on the Bureau of Land Management-Eastern States General Land Office Records Web site starting Monday.
These plats are maps relating to federal government land ownership. They show authorization for various uses (such as mining or oil drilling rights), agency jurisdiction, and rights reserved to the federal government on private land in a township. Accompanying historical indexes list related actions (such as new or canceled use authorizations).
So how would you use them for genealogy?
GLO systems manager John Butterfield suggests that if you have the legal land description and other information from your ancestor’s land patent, you can use a Master Title Plat for that township to see where the property was located.
See an example of how to search for and use GLO patents on FamilyTreeMagazine.com.
Free Databases | Land records
Thursday, June 04, 2009 9:54:39 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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